A fashion designer and his CIA agent business partner must join forces to stop a group of terrorists from smuggling explosives in counterfeit jeans during the handover of Hong Kong.
Direction
Tsui Hark's visual chaos makes zero sense and absolute sense simultaneously
Practical Effects
Pre-CGI Hong Kong destruction that actually required effort and permits
Acting
Rob Schneider attempting serious CIA agent energy
Director
Tsui Hark
Jean-Claude Van Damme
Marcus Ray
Rob Schneider
Tommy Hendricks
Lela Rochon
Karen Lee
Paul Sorvino
Harry Johanson
Michael Wong
Han
Carman Lee Yeuk-Tung
Ling Ho
Wyman Wong Wai-Man
Eddie Wang
Glen Chin
Skinny
Moses Chan Ho
Officer Fong
Lynne Langdon
V-Six Secretary
Mark Houghton
Bear
Ray Nicholas
Karl
Jeff Wolfe
Skaar
Michael Miller
Tickler
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released mere months after Hong Kong's 1997 handover to China, the film's counterfeit-goods paranoia weirdly literalizes Western anxiety about the territory's authenticity and future.
Tsui Hark allegedly filmed multiple endings and pieced this together in editing hell; Van Damme and the director reportedly stopped speaking during production.
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